Alberta Canada… but at the time I was reading a law book about the subject and basically it said that If you live somewhere without authority from the owner you can tell him to take a hike until you get forced off by the courts…

English law has a tradition of squatter’s rights too. My vague memory is that if a property isn’t being maintained, one can assert a right to live there. I don’t recall it extending to the squatter eventually becoming the owner, however. And, even as of 20 years ago, or probably more, it wasn’t necessarily a case one would win, if it came to it, but there was a legal history of it.

The reason I asked is bloody TV—I was watching an episode of the first season of the UK show Skins, and one of the kids had a partier who wouldn’t leave and evidently called “squatter’s rights”. Now the kid is homeless, haha. So I know this kind of thing wouldn’t happen in America, oh no.